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Robert Reich video has been posted…
Video from our event with Robert Reich discussing his new book, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future with Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace is now posted. Feel free to take the embed code and share….
We like Robert Reich’s sense of humor — skit with Conan O’Brien..
We are half tempted to play this video before our Live Talks event with Robert Reich on Sept 29. He has a great sense of humor….
Robert Reich (at Live Talks on Sept 29) book review and excerpt…
Reich’s book, Aftershock, is reviewed in today’s NYT. Also in today’s NYT are excerpts from the book. Noted from the review:
— Caught between rising aspirations and stagnant wages, Reich says, middle-class Americans have gone through a series of coping mechanisms. First, women joined the workforce, giving families a second income. Then husbands and wives put in longer shifts, creating a species of family called DINS — “double income, no sex.” Finally, families went into debt. In this sense, inequality helped to stoke the credit bubble…..
–Now that the bubble has burst, these coping mechanisms are exhausted. Americans are not going to push their working hours up even more……Nor are Americans going to incur more debts; to the contrary, the credit bust has forced them to pay down their balances. And so, as Reich puts it, Americans will “face a necessity they have managed to avoid for decades: They have to make do with less.”
–Reich concludes with a wish list of reforms that might head off such a confrontation. He wants a more progressive income tax, including negative taxes for anyone earning below $50,000. He wants a top income-tax rate of 55 percent, with the kicker that income from capital gains, now taxed at 15 percent, would face the same rate as income from salaries. He wants wage insurance — temporary compensation for workers who take big pay cuts when they shift jobs — as well as investments that make public transportation and Medicare more available.
Join us on Sept 29 at Zipper Hall at The Colburn School with Robert Reich in conversation with Kai Ryssdal..
Robert Reich video: Good preview to Sept 29 event
Upcoming speakers: Robert Reich, Ken Follett, P.J. O’Rourke
We have just added three new events to our fall series. Robert Reich in conversation with Kai Ryssdal on Sept 29; Ken Follett with Karen Grigsby Bates on Sept 30 — both at Zipper Hall at The Colburn School, downtown Los Angeles; and P.J. O’Rourke in conversation with Judy Muller on October 7 at Track 16 at Bergamot Station. Tweet, blog, tell yer friends!